Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bardwell School is the nearest published school at 566 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX26 5AD
Launton and Otmoor · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Launton and Otmoor
- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX26 5AD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 November 2012
- Terminated
- 1 May 2021
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX26
- Postcode sector
- OX26 5
- Latitude
- 51.914873
- Longitude
- -1.138183
- British National Grid easting
- 459,373
- British National Grid northing
- 224,388
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Launton and Otmoor · E05010934
- Parish or community
- E04013336
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00145207
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 011F · E01028499
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 011 · E02005931
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore OX26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 566 m
Bardwell School
Academy special converter
- 630 m
Glory Farm Primary School
Academy converter
- 891 m
The Cooper School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 673
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 299
- Shoplifting 67
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Public order 49
- Other theft 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OX26 5 residents
- 1,376
Age bands in OX26 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
208 residents
117 residents
285 residents
414 residents
351 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
2.4 km
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
2.5 km
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
2.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Caversfield Turn
BCT · Caversfield
- 0.2 miles
Caversfield Turn
BCT · Caversfield
- 0.3 miles
Curtiss Close
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.3 miles
Curtiss Close
BCT · Glory Farm
- 0.3 miles
Bicester Airfield Park and Ride
BCT · Bicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 011F, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,427 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
673 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 299 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.